NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 vs AMD FirePro D300

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

AMD FirePro D300

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO 512 and 2GB VRAM FirePro D300 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 's Advantages

Lower TDP (90W vs 150W)

AMD FirePro D300 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (162.6GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

1232 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

0.156 TFLOPS

FirePro D300 +1294%

2.176 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

VS

FirePro D300

Graphics Card

Oct 2008

Release Date

Jan 2014

GeForce 9

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1270 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

162.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

6

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

1280

24

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

156.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.176 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

136.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

90W

TDP

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

Pitcairn

G94-300-A1

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

240 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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